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  • New CSS Editor Improvements in Visual Studio (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)

    New CSS Editor Improvements in Visual Studio (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)

    Dec 11
    02

    This is the seventh in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET 4.5. The next release of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities. With ASP.NET 4.5 you'll see a bunch of really nice runtime and tooling improvements with both Web Forms and MVC - as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon. Today’s post covers some of the improvements we are adding to the next release of Visual Studio to make working with CSS and CSS3 even bet...

  • New Bundling and Minification Support (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)

    New Bundling and Minification Support (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)

    Nov 11
    28

    This is the sixth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET 4.5. The next release of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities. With ASP.NET 4.5 you'll see a bunch of really nice improvements with both Web Forms and MVC - as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon. Today’s post covers some of the work we are doing to add built-in support for bundling and minification into ASP.NET - which makes it easy to improve the perfor...

  • Web Forms Model Binding Part 2: Filtering Data (ASP.NET vNext Series)

    Web Forms Model Binding Part 2: Filtering Data (ASP.NET vNext Series)

    Sep 11
    12

    This is the fourth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on ASP.NET vNext. The next releases of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities. With ASP.NET vNext you’ll see a bunch of really nice improvements with both Web Forms and MVC – as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon. Today’s post is the second of three posts that talk about the new Model Binding support coming to Web Forms. Model Binding is an extension of the existing...

  • Web Forms Model Binding Part 1: Selecting Data (ASP.NET vNext Series)

    Web Forms Model Binding Part 1: Selecting Data (ASP.NET vNext Series)

    Sep 11
    06

    This is the third in a series of blog posts I’m doing on ASP.NET vNext. The next releases of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities. With ASP.NET vNext you’ll see a bunch of really exciting improvements with both Web Forms and MVC – as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon. Today’s post is the first of three posts I’ll do over the next week that talk about the new Model Binding support coming to Web Forms. Model Binding is...

  • Web Forms Model Binding Part 1: Selecting Data (ASP.NET vNext Series)

    Web Forms Model Binding Part 1: Selecting Data (ASP.NET vNext Series)

    Sep 11
    06

    This is the third in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET vNext. The next releases of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities. With ASP.NET vNext you'll see a bunch of really exciting improvements with both Web Forms and MVC - as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon. Today's post is the first of three posts I'll do over the next week that talk about the new Model Binding support coming to Web Forms. Model Binding is a...

  • HTML5 Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

    HTML5 Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

    May 11
    10

    Last week I blogged about the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update, and then followed it up with a detailed post that covered using the EF Code First and the new Data Scaffolding features in it. Today’s blog post is a continuation of this series and covers some of the new HTML5 improvements with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update release. Project Template Support for HTML5 Semantic Markup The ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update adds support for you to optionally use HTML5 semantic markup when creating new A...

  • Visual Studio 2010 SP1

    Visual Studio 2010 SP1

    Mar 11
    15

    Last week we shipped Service Pack 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and the Visual Studio Express Tools. In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, SP1 includes a number of feature enhancements. This includes improved local help support, IntelliTrace support for 64-bit applications and SharePoint, built-in Silverlight 4 Tooling support in the box, unit testing support when targeting .NET 3.5, a new performance wizard for Silverlight, IIS Express and SQL CE Tooling support for web projects...

  • VS 2010 SP1 (Beta) and IIS Express

    VS 2010 SP1 (Beta) and IIS Express

    Jan 11
    04

    Last month we released the VS 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta. You can learn more about the VS 2010 SP1 Beta from Jason Zander’s two blog posts about it, and from Scott Hanselman’s blog post that covers some of the new capabilities enabled with it. You can download and install the VS 2010 SP1 Beta here. IIS Express Earlier this summer I blogged about IIS Express. IIS Express is a free version of IIS 7.5 that is optimized for developer scenarios. We think it combines the ease of use of the...

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